[rtweezy]

Hey Guys,


I am having a problem playing music through my home theater and having very weak bass compared to when I'm watching movies. Relevant equipment is as follows: Harman Kardon avr- 254 receiver, crappy LG satellite speakers for front and rear, Klipsch sub 10 subwoofer and a JBL LC1 center. The sub is hooked up via LFE to receiver. When I stream music from my xbox 360 through optical to the reciever I get 2 channel audio and of course I have no bass, but when I apply pro logic 2 or other processing the bass is still weak. Any ideas??


Crossovers:

Front and rear -120 hz

center -100hz

sub- present (whatever that means)

actual sub crossover setting-120hz


P.S. Is it better to have the sub not hooked up to LFE for listening to music? I'm having problems understanding this whole LFE thing.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Don't you have control over the levels for each channel including LFE? Did you go through the setup procedure to calibrate levels and distances?

 

[RampageSTi]

Have you tried 5 ch stereo? That seems to output a higher bass level for me on the 360, at least while listening to music.

 

[rtweezy]

Yes, I have the ability to set the levels, however when watching movies and playing games I have really good bass. If I were to change the levels it would change how it sounds during those activities.

 

[harmann]

I had and solved a similar problem but my receiver is the Onkyo 506.


It has a "Direct" mode which bypasses pretty much all audio processing. If I use this mode, I get no bass from music. It plays exactly what is fed into it. Music is 2.0 so only the 2 front speakers play. When I switch to Stereo mode the sub works for music. Check to see if your receiver does something like that.


As for bass in music being weaker than movies, I guess it's because the receiver sums up the signals below crossover in all channels and send to the sub. Movies have bass in 5/6 channels so the sum is greater than 2 channels in music.